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Analysis: Unexpected fruit from Annapolis
Filed under: Democracy, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Middle East, Palestine, Peace Talks, Syria, conflict resolution, military intervention, politics, refugees, terrorism |
Leave a Comment By CLAUDE SALHANI
UPI Contributing Editor
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 (UPI) — President Bush most likely never imagined that the Annapolis Middle East peace conference he convened last week on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay would yield the results it did. He hoped to jump-start the comatose peace negotiations between Palestinians and Israelis with the expectation of reaching an agreement for a two-state solution before the end of his mandate, now just over a year away. Palestinian and Israeli leaders walked away from the peace conference promising the American president they would “push for peace.”
In political parlance that is the equivalent of saying “the check is in the mail.”
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The die is cast…
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Leave a Comment BY CLAUDE SALHANI (View from Washington)
THE die is cast, or as Julius Caesar said when he crossed the Rubicon, alea jacta est. The Bush administration crossed its own Rubicon with the announcement on Tuesday night by the US State Department that it has issued invitations to host 50 countries and organisations — including Syria — to attend a Middle East peace conference with the aim of reviving the stalled peace initiative.
Why solving the Mideast crisis is so complex
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Claude Salhani, Middle East Times
October 29, 2007
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| MIDEAST MIND MAP: A mind map of the Israeli-Palestinian dispute would offer a quick snapshot of the interlinked problems facing attendees of an upcoming Middle East peace summit expected to be held in Annapolis, MD in November 2007. (Claude Salhani) |
– A few days ago, I was explaining the functionality of a “mind map” to a group of students studying for their Masters degree at my alma mater, Royal Roads University in beautiful Victoria, the capital of British Columbia, Canada, where I lecture two weeks every October.
A mind map is a very instructive tool used by conflict interveners to identify the principal stakeholders in a dispute, and then further find and represent all possible sources of strife or influence over the situation. The advantage of a mind map is that it permits one to see in a single slide all problems, problem makers, as well as potential problem facilitators. The mind map allows its users a quick snapshot of the minefield of problems a conflict resolution specialist is up against when trying to resolve a particular dispute.
